The White House disclosed that the president has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), a condition common in people of his age.

Donald Trump was seen with a noticeable layer of makeup on his right hand on Friday as he left the White House, amid ongoing speculation about his health. The 79-year-old is believed to have used makeup to hide bruising on his hand on several occasions since returning to office, but the application appeared particularly thick during his visit to The People’s House museum.

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
      43·
      2 months ago

      I do kinda fear JD Vance being president. It’s mostly a “devil you know” kinda fear. There’s the off chance that he’s just the same same as Trump, but younger and, in the worst case scenario, more competent.

        • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          171·
          2 months ago

          Yeah pretty much my take.

          Trump has 3 relevant characteristics, he has evil intentions, he’s incompetent, he’s popular.

          Vance has evil intentions, he’s less incompetent, but he’s less popular.

          • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            The shit they’ve been setting up since regaining power will make popularly irrelevant.

            The ICE budget scares me more than Trump or Vance.

        • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 months ago

          The issue is that it isn’t that Donald has a magic sway over his followers. It’s that he gives them permission to be their worst selves.

          He hinted, twice, to crowds that they should get the Covid vaccine. And was booed. Twice.

          He’s riding the tiger and does an impressive job at it.

          When he leaves, he will leave a vacuum. And that vacuum will be filled, unfortunately.

          • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            There will be tons of maga people who absolutely hate each other mutually backstabbing, and it just might be extremely tricky for any one of them to gain ground, even with Vance technically being the one moving up.

            Even trump barely keeps them from one another’s throats.

            Hard to say ultimately, though no reason to outright assume it’ll get worse if trump’s health goes south, it seems to me.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
        231·
        2 months ago

        Vance is pretty unpopular even with the Nazi base. Without the Führer, the whole movement will fizzle out.

        • breecher@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 months ago

          Probably not so much fizzle out as implode spectacularly through infighting about who is going to be their next führer. Vance was handpicked by Trump and has the respect of nobody. Everybody in the RNC will try to become the new king.

          • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            He was handpicked by Peter Thiel. But you’re right that he has as much of a chance to be the next Führer as Rudolf Heß had.

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 months ago

        More competent should be better. It takes a special kind of stupid to betray your country as much as he has.

        He might have a better position on the boat but we’re roughly all in the same boat. If he causes a greater depression, that certainly won’t be good for him. It’ll be a lot worse for us of course, but that doesn’t matter here.

        • orclev@lemmy.world
          10·
          2 months ago

          The problem is Vance is the main one pushing the christo-fascist stuff. Trump is a greedy stupid narcissist which can (and has) caused plenty of short term damage. Enough short term damage can stack up to long term damage, but even that is recoverable. Over a long enough time scale foreign relations can be patched, soft power slowly restored. Nothing he has done domestically has been too catastrophic yet. Vance though has the potential intelligence to do some seriously long term lasting damage, the kind of stuff that would E.G. enshrine his particular flavor of Christianity as the national religion and make anyone who isn’t male and white a second class citizen. Once society gets tilted in that direction restoring it becomes incredibly hard. Like overthrow the government hard.

          Trump in contrast is basically a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. Sure he might break stuff, but broken things are easier to repair than things that have been maliciously constructed. The fascist systems Vance might build are far scarier than whatever Trump comes up with because what Trump makes never lasts. Just wait a little while and it will naturally collapse from greed, incompetence, and infighting. Vance I fear could make something stable though.

          The silver lining in this I suppose is that Vance lacks the conman skills that have allowed Trump to weaponize morons and force others to go along with his delusions. Without the throngs of MAGAts supporting him Vance won’t be able to strongarm the rest of the GOP the way Trump has which would hamper his efforts.

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 months ago

        Don’t let your fears get in the way of your dreams. They are like moles. Only real way to get rid of them is systematically, one by one.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    98·
    2 months ago

    Do people outside the UK know just how bad The Express is? It’s a bottom-tier reactionary tabloid. Don’t give them clicks.

    • codapine@lemmy.zip
      3·
      2 months ago

      Well, it’s the Express, so… It panders to the deluded folk amongst the population of the UK that wish they could get a dose of Trumpist Populism™.

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
        1·
        2 months ago

        There’s the Reform Party for such imbeciles. Imagine Trump as a chainsmoking saloon-bar drunk. That’s Farage.

        Same policies though, freshly translated from Russian.

  • loie@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 months ago

    There’s such a simple, logical, reasonable explanation for a bruise like this: he had blood drawn recently and the phlebotomist had to draw from a vein on top of the hand. If TFG had any sense of humor he could joke about it. If he had any sense of relatability he would know that this happens all the time. But instead…he’d rather do this. Because he’s fuckin weird.

    • bigfondue@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      I’m not sure that Trump dying would improve things. We then end up with President Vance, who is a Thiel creation and Yarvin fan. Possibly less corrupt, but definitely more competent and disciplined. Trump’s main motivator is ego and impulse, but Vance actually believes in the TechFash goals.

      • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        That’s one of them. But my colleagues favorite pet was a species that had an opisthosoma with a big red dorsal spot that covered most of the top. They were mutellid mimics and quite impressive and amusing spiders. If you didn’t know their true identity they looked pretty formidable.

      • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Portia are up there. And there are a couple large Phiddipus species with red butts that my grad school Buds used to keep as pets. They were Mutellid mimics and were very entertaining critters

        • kakler bitmap@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Ha yeah Portia are awesome! And as far as the Phids do you mean P. johnsoni? I love them too! I currently have a mated pair in my spood collection, hoping for an eggsac…

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
      101·
      2 months ago

      That’s looks more like a skin graft than makeup. You would think they could get close to matching the color of the rest of his hand but this administration can’t even do that right.

      • Reyali@lemmy.world
        10·
        2 months ago

        It looks to me like he has a lot of blood pooling in his hands here, so it’s possible that in the morning, at rest with his arm on a table this did reasonably match his skin.

        I say this as someone with a condition that causes blood to pool in my hands, so I know how extreme the color swings can be!

      • Chozo@fedia.io
        8·
        2 months ago

        To be fair, no makeup department stocks his unique shade of orange. You gotta go to Lowe’s and get a custom mix for that.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.world
        91·
        2 months ago

        The time I had a skin graft, they took a portion of donor skin from my upper thigh. So, same skin, but different levels of sun exposure.

        For a long time I had this weird rectangle on my leg that looked like a movie theater screen.

  • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
    171·
    2 months ago

    I am embroidering a banner that says “Hooray! Trump is fucking dead!!!” I have several days of work to go, so please hold on until Tuesday, Donnie.